What is MAPP Training?
MAPP (Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting) training is an eight week (24-hour) course in which both a trained social worker and an adoptive/foster parent work with families to teach them about the needs of children in the foster care system and how best to parent children with these specific needs. The course delves into behavioral and emotional needs, legal issues with adopting them from foster care and other important topics. Once MAPP training is complete, a social worker will be assigned to a family to complete a home study. New Bedford Schedule Adoption Services, New Bedford, runs MAPP group as needed, on eight consecutive Mondays from 5-8 PM. Classes are held downtown, at 800 Purchase St. The next eight-week group starts Monday, 6/2, and continues on: 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7, 7/14, concluding on 7/21. Limited space is available. Please contact Melissa Azevedo, mazevedo@cfservices.
MAPP (Model Approach to Partnership in Parenting) is the training that is provided to prospective foster and adoptive parents to enable them to acquire the knowledge and skills required to become a licensed foster parent. A wide variety of subjects are covered that provide information and insight into the issues related to fostering or adopting a child who has been abused, neglected or whose parents could not provide care. Each session deals with a specific topic and will help you have the ability to: • Assess and build on individual and family strengths. • Develop and use effective communication skills. • Identify the strengths and needs of placed children. • Build on these and meet the child’s needs. • Develop partnerships with children, birth families, the agency and the community. • Help children manage loss and form attachments. • Help children manage their behaviors. • Help children to maintain connections with their past. • Help children build positive self concept, family, raci
